Everything Is Bad For You, Everyone Wants To Kill You, And Nothing Good Ever Happens
Bad News Sells A World No-one Wants To Live In This is what you could come to believe if you just swallowed the general line that is pushed on a daily basis. News outlets, Facebook walls, feed-readers, the spam email that gets flung past the filters into your psychic...
Punk At 40: Filthy Lucre?
The 3rd album I ever bought was the The Clash: The Singles, and back when I was 18 Combat Rock was one of my favorite albums. I used to sing along to The Sex Pistols regularly. I idolized Siouxsie Sioux. I was super aware of it as a kid, and had a crush on a neighbor...
Radiohead: Blank Screen Advertising
Learn The Game And The Broke The Rules Having an internet presence is one way to publicize yourself and generate interest. Erasing said web presence is an interesting twist on how to use that power. If you are big enough doing something like that would generate a huge...
Hey Cortana, Tell Me About Your Marketing
The Marketing Was Persistent. Cortana Was Calling. I fought it. I ignored it. The pop-ups were constant, but I always walked away. I always told them to remind me another day. The price of a bad operating system I would not pay! Windows 8 had already burned me. And I...
A Tribute To Prince: The Man, The Marketing, The Legend.
It’s An Impressive Feat Of Marketing And Skill When Everyone Knows Your Name It was odd, two Prince songs in a row on a random radio station. I didn’t know at the time. It didn’t occur to me. I didn’t think of the possibility. But later, well, I heard the news...
Beyonce’s Lemonade
Lemonade Is Something Different Done Well If you’re going to release an album these days and make any kind of splash with it – any kind of cultural impact – then you need to do something big, and you need to do something innovative. Beyonce brings us...
Prince’s PR And Purple Reign
Prince’s Was A Professional Who Kept His Good Deeds Private Bowie’s passing affected a lot of people. Prince’s death seems to be affecting, if not more people, then it seems to be affecting them in a different way – with their grief being of...
Re-shooting Movies Is Suicide
Suicide Squad Reshoots May Kill It Dead It’s funny how decisions get made on some of these big blockbuster movies – and the way they get treated really does make them seem more like product than pieces of art, which must be a really disconcerting...
The Role Of Fictional Presidents
There Are Some Fictional Presidents We’d Rather Vote For Presidents get judged in many ways, and the expectations we place on them, and the criticisms we level at them, aren’t just based on the records of their contemporaries or their predecessors. We see...
Marketing Socialism Is A Bad Thing!
You’ve Heard The Positive Marketing For Socialism, Now Here’s The Rebuttal I cannot believe I need to talk about this. I can’t believe I need to say it. Socialism is a bad thing! How long have we Americans spent fighting against communism and socialism and...
Marketing By Not Finishing: Anime Adaptations
Anime Adaptations Use One Media To Market Another I’m about to let you in on an issue plaguing parts of the otaku community: the rampant adaptation of light novels and manga without finishing the storyline. Now, for those of you who are not inside some of the deepest...
Election Convention PR
The PR of the National Conventions I have had multiple conversations about how the RNC and DNC conventions this summer are going to go. One of the biggest things that keeps coming up in my conversations and those of others that I am reading on other news oriented...
US WNT Lawsuit Advertised
How the US WNT Case Should Be Advertised I have been a vocal proponent over the fallacy of equal rights in the past few years. I have advertised my stance on equal pay and equal rights, and as with every rule, there is an exception. I do not believe that such a...
Advertising Belsomra and Big Pharma
Advertising Belsomra, and the Problems with Modern Medicine One major industry escapes a great deal of criticism on a public scale because they purport to serve the good of humanity. This industry is remarkably contained in every other country of the world except for...
PR For Disney: How Beneficial Is The Success Of Zootopia?
Rave Reviews Isn’t The Only Good PR Thing About Zootopia As soon as I saw the trailer in Cobb Theatre at Countryside Mall for Zootopia and learned that the guy’s behind both Frozen and Big Hero 6 worked on it, I knew it would be awesome. And, I was right. This...
The PR of a Legend
PR of Total Football and Johan Cruyff Today is a sad day for two countries, millions of fans and world of football. Not American football, but football. The legend, the man who made popular the concept of total football, the man who helped give Pep Guardiola, Luis...
Donald Trump Wins–And His Marketing Does Too
Donald’s Marketing On Point: 45.7% Of The Votes And 99 Delegates! Well, Clearwater and the rest of Florida spoke with their votes and the answer was unsurprising. Because, of course, Donald Trump won the Republican primary in our fine Sunshine State. And I’d...
Advertising Economic Policy
Advertising the Problems with Liberal and Conservative Economic Agendas In an election year there are always key issues that dominate the foreground. I do not need to cite any academic or public sources to inform you that the Economy is one of the biggest issues in...
Star Wars: Tie-In Products Are Marketing
Another Talk About Marketing…From A Galaxy Far, Far Away It’s time to talk about Star Wars again, more specifically, it’s tie-in products. Which swarm over store shelves like a pack of TIE Fighters. Now, from the little I know of the economic process of...
Education System of Common Core
Does our Education System Help or Hurt our Children? Education Definition: the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, character, etc., especially by formal schooling; teaching & training The US has a long history (dating back to the 1600’s)...
Government vs Liberty
The Struggle Between Government and Individual Liberty One of the biggest quandaries that our country faces is the overwhelming imbalance between powerful financial groups and the common man who struggles to survive and compete for economic and business survival....
What is a Libertarian?
What is a Libertarian? The Libertarian Party is becoming more well known. People have heard of Ron Paul, and his son Rand Paul. Ron is a student of Ludwig von Mises, and while Senator Rand Paul is more politically expedient, there are policies that he too will not...
Thomas Jefferson and Anti-Federalism
Thomas Jefferson and Anti-Federalism Thomas Jefferson was arguably one of this country’s greatest presidents, and we can tell this via his accomplishments and failings. As an anti-federalist, Thomas Jefferson believed that the new United States should look...